Summary

Marina Logvinenko-Dobrancheva (EUN) led the preliminary with 587 over China’s Li Duihong, who had fired 586. But Logvinenko-Dobrancheva was too strong in the final and won the gold medal but four points over Li. The best female pistol shooters of the 90s, Nino Salukvadze, a Soviet Georgian, and Yugoslavian Jasna Šekarić, made the finals but placed 5th and 6th, respectively. Five days later, Logvinenko-Dobrancheva also won the air pistol event.

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